Piriform, developer of CCleaner after Generalized reactions, πήρε πίσω την τελευταία έκδοση της εφαρμογής. Με την έκδοση 5.45 ήταν λειτουργικά αδύνατο να αποφευχθεί η συλλογή δεδομένων.
Such as we mentioned yesterday, CCleaner version 5.45 was sending anonymous information of the system in Piriform, and users of the application could not disable this feature, since even after disabling the application continued to send data.
Of course, the behavior provoked reactions last week and so Piriform, (a subsidiary of Avast) took back the latest version of CCleaner at the weekend.
The forum of the application states:
We are currently working to separate cleanup functions from analytics aggregation and offer more control options to CCleaner users to remember after a reboot. We also create a newsletter, which will describe the data that we collect, for what purposes and how they are processed.
Today we removed v5.45 and reinstated v5.44 as the main CCleaner download while we work on a new edition with several key improvements.
It is a step for sure, to remember the program settings of users after closing the application!
Needless to say, the next version of CCleaner should completely remove these dark patterns and make it clear to users why it collects and what it does with their data.
Of course we still do not recommend using CCleaner regardless of the company promises.
